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Original poem reprinted online here: "Full Moon" by Tu Fu Originally read: April 2, 2013 More information about the Poet: Tu Fu Tang Chinese Poets.  I don't know how many times I've heard that they were a big influence in someone's poetic work.  And, from my reading of Li Po, Tu Fu, Po Chu II, and Wang Wei -- the focus for me is how the image is implemented in the poem.  There's a visual concrete presence that moves in the majority of the poems of Tang Chinese Poets.  So, with this poem, I think the translation does a real disservice to the poem by using "it."  However, what "it" does for the translation adds another layer of miscommunication that adds a certain depth to the poem. There are only two quatrains here.  The first focuses on the location of the full moon which is above human constructs (a tower) passing over.  The first "it" in this poem occurs in the third line with "It scatters restless gold across the waves...